“Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state.”
Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1787), "Matrimony", p. 100
Context: Nothing, I am sure, calls forth the faculties so much as the being obliged to struggle with the world; and this is not a woman's province in a married state. Her sphere of action is not large, and if she is not taught to look into her own heart, how trivial are her occupations and pursuits! What little arts engross and narrow her mind!
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Mary Wollstonecraft 44
British writer and philosopher 1759–1797Related quotes
“The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.”
Interview with The Sunday Telegraph, quoted in the Eugene Register-Guard (27 December 1972) https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1310&dat=19721227&id=OalVAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9-ADAAAAIBAJ&pg=6123,7185434&hl=en
“I am aware, that I am a woman, and I enjoy being a woman.”
“I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.”
Heathcliff (Ch. XXXIII).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when every thing is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My old enemies have not beaten me — now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives. I could do it, and none could hinder me; but where is the use? I don't care for striking — I can't take the trouble to raise my hand! That sounds as if I had been labouring the whole time only to exhibit a fine trait of magnanimity. It is far from being the case. I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
